Magerun is a very useful commandline tool for dealing with daily Magento development problem like:

• clean / flush caches
• reindexing the indices
• set configuration values in the database (core_config_data)
• shorthand query syntax for database accesses
• …

It’s developed by netz98 (http://www.netz98.de/) and made my daily business so much easier.

Installation (Linux)

$> wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netz98/n98-magerun/master/n98-magerun.phar
$> chmod +x ./n98-magerun.phar
$> sudo cp ./n98-magerun.phar /usr/local/bin/ #make it runs from everywhere

If you want to run Magerun in an Apache context, you have to tell your Apache, that .phar is an executable php file ending:

F.e. Apache configuration:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phar

To use Magerun everywhere in your file system, you can define a bash_alieas.

alias magerun="n98-magerun.phar --root-dir=/var/www/magentoroot/"

Updates

Updates can be done vial Magerun itself:

n98-magerun.phar self-update
# or over alias
magerun self-update

Usesage examples

Here are some examples for the power of this tool:

• Reset Admin Password

  $> magerun admin:user:change-password

• Set system config value

  $> magerun config:set "web/unsecure/base_url" "http://ask-sheldon.com"

• Dump system config

  $> magerun config:list

• Clean caches

  $> magerun cache:clean

•  Flush cache storages

  $> magerun cache:flush

• Query database

  $> magerun db:query "SELECT * FROM core_config_data"

• Run step wise setup scripts

  $> magerun sys:setup:incremental

• Reindex

  $> magerun index:reindex:all

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